Simpson books place in Lowe-Bristow team

Chris Simpson with organiser Chris Fletcher.

Published:00:38Thursday 05 January 2017

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Chris Simpson is the latest oche ace to book his place in the Lowe v Bristow match.

On Friday night attention turned from the William Hill Darts League to the latest qualifier, where the winner would book his place in the upcoming teams match captained by greats John Lowe and Eric Bristow.

At the Liberal Club a total of 19 players competed in this last-man-standing event, where entry to the oche was drawn by numbers and the winner of the final match was crowned the champion.

Gordon Smith had a long way to go as he pulled out number one, but because points awarded for wins will also be enough to see other entrants compete in the teams, there was all to play for.

His opponent was Rick Seaman and Gordon hung on to win a very nervy first game.

Chris Fletcher had ball number three and went on a four-leg winning run.

He beat Gordon, Wayne Burles, Chris Butler and Steve Gillings.

It was Plymouth’s own Rob Pomeroy who ended Chris’ run, Rob playing some fantastic darts as he went on a six-game run himself, with creditable wins over Mark Forman, Liam Simms, Stuart Giles, Christopher Royal and Terry Cox, before finding David Tuplin too strong.